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- Drift into past in poetry book - Baytown Sun
When writing about local authors recently, I meant to mention a collector’s item on my book shelf — “Driftwood and Dreams,” an anthology of poems published in 1955 by Candor Press. Most of the writers belonged to the then-active Baytown ...
- Big returns from not-for-profit - Guardian Blogs
Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal is the kind of novel that gives sales and marketing people night sweats. Translated from the French, it's a fragmentary novel: a patchwork of minute descriptions of hotel rooms, mixed with a chronologically confused half ...
- Our family's recovery - Salon
The Yaskulkas, dressed up for a family wedding in 2000, surround Myrna, who died on 9/11: (clockwise) Jay, Myrna, Louise, Shannon and Brianna. Sept. 11, 2006 | HAZLET, N.J. -- For months after her grandmother died, Shannon Yaskulka doodled ...
- ‘Teza’ explores Ethiopia’s violent past - Arab Times
‘Teza’ explores Ethiopia’s violent pastArab Times, Kuwait - 5 hours ago“They had their poetry, books, everything connecting them to the past, a paradise kind of lost,” he said. A third film on Tuesday, “set in no particular ...
- Michael Dirda - Washington Post
Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda took your questions and comments concerning literature, books and the joys of reading. Each week Michael Dirda's name appears -- in attractively large type -- in The Post's Book World section, where he writes about ...
- Lifestyle digest - Post-Bulletin
Lifestyle digestPost-Bulletin, MN - 4 hours agoMembers of the Twin Cities Laurel Poetry Collective will explain how a writers' collective works and how writers can team up to form one. ...
- McCain's Stunt Gridlock - Slate
The L.A. Daily News on its city's seeming unshrinkable downtown education bureaucracy : [A] Daily News review of salaries and staffing shows LAUSD's bureaucracy ballooned by nearly 20 percent from 2001 to 2007. Over the same period, 500 teaching ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - News-Democrat
Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections "The Niagara ...
- Phoebe Snow Is On the Comeback Trail - Black America Web
Phoebe Snow Is On the Comeback TrailBlack America Web, Tx - 25 minutes ago“I just want to thank you for helping me help save my life.” Snow, the versatile singer-songwriter-guitarist who hit it big in the 1970s with “Poetry Man” ...
- Transcending contradictions - Hindu
HinduTranscending contradictionsHindu, India - 2 hours agoFrom Ghalib: The Man, The Times, to Krishna’s life, translating Kaifi Azmi, Gulzar, working on Atal Bihari Vajpeyi’s poetry, and going to the streets of ...
- Andrew Davidson's $2.5-million voyage (The Globe and Mail)
This Canadian's literary odyssey began with a visit from an imaginary siren who insisted her story be put to paper. It evolved into a centuries-long saga of a porn star and his muse. It ended with publishing deals spanning the globe
- Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in ... - De Argentinos
Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in ...De Argentinos, Argentina - 56 minutes agoPerformance, theatre, and poetry were the elected means of tacitly protesting the totalitarian military rule that choked this country until the fall of the ...
- Morrissey ends Laugharne connection - WalesOnline
Morrissey ends Laugharne connectionWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 9 hours agoMen Behaving Badly star Morrissey, a big fan of Thomas poetry, had ambitions of establishing a hotel and country club group across the UK starting with his ...
- Coughtry and Brooksher Are 'Romeo and Juliet' for Shakespeare Theatre of NJ (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's new production of Romeo and Juliet, Oct. 15-Nov. 16 at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, will feature Jordan Coughtry as Romeo and Rebecca Brooksher as Juliet.
- Palestinian People Mourn Darwish's Death, President Abbas Declares 3 Days of Mourning (Palestine News Agency)
RAMALLAH, August 10, 2008 (WAFA) - The Palestinian people on Sunday mourned the death of Mahmoud Darwish, one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets.
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